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Once upon a time there was a cow
named Popeye who had a huge head and thick horns that grew
horizontal,
not vertical and curved, straight out of the
sides of her head. Her neck was as thick as a bull's,
and there was no way you could close her in an ordinary
cow stanchion. Legend had it that her blind right eye,
milky and foreboding and always open
because her eyelid had been torn off,
had been lost in a battle with a bull
whose attentions she had not appreciated,
and that, in retaliation, she had ripped
one of her horns across the bull's
underbelly, gutting him instantly.
Whatever the cause, Popeye's evil eye
had the desired effect. No cow in her |
